Hey, how are ya? I'm writing with a theme-related question. Right now the site I'm working to create, using glFusion, is using the default Nouveau theme, and my question is regarding the blue header bar section at the top where the logo and search box reside.

Is there a way to change that entire area to be a custom graphic rather than just a gradient color? That way the site's logo takes up the entire top portion of the site?

The easiest way to replace the header background image is to create your new .png format image and name it header-bg.png and overwrite the one in the public_html/layout/nouveau/images/ directory.

The width doesn't really matter, but it should be 100px high for default use with the Nouveau theme. If you are creating a fluid width site, I'd make it fairly wide, say 1600px. You can use header-bg-afternoon.jpg in the same images directory as an example. If it is a fixed width site, make sure it is as wide as your #gl_container-fixed div.

I would recommend not including the actual logo itself as part of the header-bg image, but make that a separate .png image with transparency, and then upload that through the Command & Control >> Logo interface. This way, the actual text in your logo will be clickable as a link to your homepage.

K, it's a fluid site, so I should just make it 100px high and like 1600px wide?

Yep.

Or, upload a transparent PNG then upload the logo through the admin? Would that take up the entire tip? They want a graphical image taking up the entire top section with no text.

Reverse it. Copy your header.bg-png image file over the existing one, then upload the transparent png part through the logo interface.

If they don't want a clickable link in the header at all, then just copy public_html/layout/nouveau/header.thtml into public_html/layout/nouveau/custom/ and then open it and remove the {logo_block} line, like this: